### Please describe the problem.

v8 repo automatically upgrades to v10 which is contrary to what the changelog states here [[news/version_10.20220822]].

### What steps will reproduce the problem?

```
git init
git annex init --version 8
git config annex.version
git annex info > /dev/null
git config annex.version
```

### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

10.20220822 Linux

> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]
